Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was no great movie of the year, no great play, no great fashion statement (no new look, no new old look), no great new television show. There was no major work of fiction, and the novel that drew the most attention was purportedly written by no one, who, when he fessed up to being someone, contended that his subterfuge did not matter...
...town that turns out to be a lot less somnolent than it looks. Sam manages to recover a lost love (shiningly portrayed by Elizabeth Pena) but the countywide network of corruption eventually snags them both. Writer-director John Sayles is a subtle, patient craftsman; he knows that in good fiction, history has to be more than a throwaway line. Sayles also has a gift for showing, without bloodily melodramatizing it, the strangeness lurking beneath the bland surfaces of American life...
...FICTION AND POETRY...
...actually going on in Panama that demands being spied upon, but that doesn't stop a couple of itchy agents in British intelligence. In Panama City they blackmail a well-connected tailor who obediently weaves a dire plot against British interests out of whole cloth. As with any good fiction, imagined events lead to real repercussions...
...Dark Places (Knopf). James Ellroy's mother was murdered in 1958, when her only child was 10. The crime was never solved, and the son affected to be glad he was no longer under her strict spell. But now that he has grown famous as a writer of crime fiction--by no coincidence--he has decided to re-open the case and his own wounds. Ellroy's search for his mother's killer transcends the personal; it is a gripping meditation on the men who kill and the women who die at their hands...